Sunday, March 07, 2010
Projections Onstage in Shows Like ‘Sondheim on Sondheim’
NYTimes.com: "AT “The Orphans’ Home Cycle” titles and dates move across the screen like “Star Wars” credits taking a detour. At “Fela!” newspaper headlines like “Fela Declares Self ‘Black Power Man’ ” pop up on a screen. Even at “Safe Home,” a low-budget, bare-bones production that opened Off Broadway this year, scene changes were announced with 1950s newsreel footage."
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It is interesting to see two designers who are on the same page in terms of their design. It isn't them fighting against each other but them fighting the director. The thing that really gets me though, is in a show that is celebrating a composer of this, whose shows jump from opera to wordy concosions dealing with baking people into meat pies and love, are projections really needed. Is this about celbrating a composer or exhibiting the range of shows which he has created over the past 50 years. And if it is about the composer why not involve elements from those shows, then exhibiting huge pictures of Sondheim. We all know the show is about him. We know who he is. We don't need to see his face every minute. That is unless you are treating your audience as stupid.
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